As someone researching depictions of social media an in teen/youth films, I found your analysis fascinating and really insightful. Bookmarked for future reference. Thank you!
Wonderful write-up of a wonderful time in our lives. I've been a magazine junkie since I was very young - I sorta keep wishing there was a towering AI Magazine and AI Week like the old PC Week and InfoWorld that I eagerly awaited in the mailbox. I didn't understand half of what they said, but I loved them just the same. I do pick up occasional $15 special editions on AI, etc., and I know it all can be served up by imperfect Flipboard or if I dedicated myself to diving into a creation via AI. I get digital magazines, of course, and the benefits are many. But maybe Digital Paper one day will finally be a reality, and my Now Edition grand vision reality - as deep and fun as books/magazines but as up to date as today. I'll be possible, in fact it already sort of is. Will we go there?
I relate hard to the “didn’t understand half of it, still loved it” magazine era. Love digital magazines too, but there is always something missing for me.
I think we can go there, the ingredients already exist. The missing piece for me is real editorial intent: a finite edition with taste and pacing, not another endlessly updating stream.
You're welcome! I'll go down a bit of a rabbit hole - I've had a vision for a couple decades of the Now Edition, babbled to many, blogged to some - but now, as I yak about in my Confessions of an AI Fanboy blog, I talk about using two tools - Floot and Base 44 - to play with creating a mockup to show what I mean. Here's one: https://thenowedition.floot.app/ and here's the other https://the-now-edition-9e835f95.base44.app - will spare you the blog URLs, but happy to share if you care;-) I've widened my vision to think it could be the next generation of magazines, not just books - sort of like the USA Today headline that shifted in a reader's hands in that Minority Report scene. We'll see!
As someone researching depictions of social media an in teen/youth films, I found your analysis fascinating and really insightful. Bookmarked for future reference. Thank you!
Awww glad you think it’s relevant! Thank you for this!
Wonderful write-up of a wonderful time in our lives. I've been a magazine junkie since I was very young - I sorta keep wishing there was a towering AI Magazine and AI Week like the old PC Week and InfoWorld that I eagerly awaited in the mailbox. I didn't understand half of what they said, but I loved them just the same. I do pick up occasional $15 special editions on AI, etc., and I know it all can be served up by imperfect Flipboard or if I dedicated myself to diving into a creation via AI. I get digital magazines, of course, and the benefits are many. But maybe Digital Paper one day will finally be a reality, and my Now Edition grand vision reality - as deep and fun as books/magazines but as up to date as today. I'll be possible, in fact it already sort of is. Will we go there?
Thank you 🙏
I relate hard to the “didn’t understand half of it, still loved it” magazine era. Love digital magazines too, but there is always something missing for me.
I think we can go there, the ingredients already exist. The missing piece for me is real editorial intent: a finite edition with taste and pacing, not another endlessly updating stream.
You're welcome! I'll go down a bit of a rabbit hole - I've had a vision for a couple decades of the Now Edition, babbled to many, blogged to some - but now, as I yak about in my Confessions of an AI Fanboy blog, I talk about using two tools - Floot and Base 44 - to play with creating a mockup to show what I mean. Here's one: https://thenowedition.floot.app/ and here's the other https://the-now-edition-9e835f95.base44.app - will spare you the blog URLs, but happy to share if you care;-) I've widened my vision to think it could be the next generation of magazines, not just books - sort of like the USA Today headline that shifted in a reader's hands in that Minority Report scene. We'll see!